America's oldest Synagogue, Touro was built by Slave Labor
(s01.geekpic.net)https://s01.geekpic.net/di-80OWO4.jpeg"the first Jews who came to Rhode Island were looking for tolerance. But Aaron Lopez’s crew wants total freedom and equality. And they get it. Including the slave trade and slave labor. Keith also tells me that enslaved people did the actual physical building of Touro synagogue."
https://thepublicsradio.org/episode/aaron-lopez-the-irony-of-the-merchant-prince-of-newport(Aaron Lopez supposedly only shipped ~1000 slaves from Africa, trading them for cheap Rum...but as you see below, one trip of just one ship, he owned 30, carried 246 slaves..)
"It's February. They've loaded up the ship, and they've got 246 slaves on it, and they're sailing off to Barbados with 246 slaves. And as you go through this log book, you find that a month into the voyage the slaves start dying of flux.
GONZÁLEZ: Flux is a generic name for vomit and diarrhea. A result of 246 people living below a ship deck with no sanitation. No sunshine, and minimal food."
